supernova

See also: supèrnova and Supernova

English

Etymology

super- +‎ nova

Noun

supernova (plural supernovae or supernovas)

1. (astronomy) The explosion of a star, which increases its brightness to typically a billion times that of our sun, though attenuated by the great distance from our sun. Some leave only debris (Type I); others fade to invisibility as neutron stars (Type II).

Synonyms

• SN (abbreviation)

Related terms

• dwarf nova
• failed supernova
• hypernova
• nova
• red nova
• supernova impostor
• supernova remnant
• unnova

 

Translations

exploding star

• Basque: supernoba
• Belarusian: звышно́вая f (zvyšnóvaja)
• Bulgarian: свръхно́ва (bg) f (svrǎhnóva)
• Catalan: supernova f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 超新星 (zh) (chāoxīnxīng)

• Czech: supernova (cs) f
• Dutch: supernova (nl)
• Esperanto: supernovao
• Estonian: supernoova
• Finnish: supernova (fi)
• French: supernova (fr) f
• Georgian: ზეახალი ვარსკვლავი (zeaxali varsḳvlavi)
• German: Supernova (de) f
• Greek: υπερκαινοφανής (el) m (yperkainofanís)
• Hungarian: szupernóva (hu)
• Icelandic: sprengistjarna (is) f
• Indonesian: supernova (id)
• Irish: ollnóva
• Italian: supernova (it) f
• Japanese: 超新星 (ja) (ちょうしんせい, chōshinsei)
• Korean: 초신성 (ko) (chosinseong) (超新星 (ko))
• Latvian: pārnova f, supernova f
• Lithuanian: supernova f

• Macedonian: супернова f (supernova)
• Malay: supernova
• Maltese: supernova f
• Mongolian: нэн шинэ од (nen šine od)
• Norman: supèrnova m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: supernova

  Nynorsk: supernova

• Persian: ابرنواختر‎ (fa) (abar-now-axtar)
• Polish: supernowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: supernova (pt) f
• Russian: сверхно́вая звезда́ (ru) f (sverxnóvaja zvezdá), сверхно́вая (ru) f (sverxnóvaja), суперно́ва f (supernóva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: супернова f

  Roman: supernova (sh) f

• Slovak: supernova f
• Slovene: supernova (sl) f
• Spanish: supernova (es) f
• Swedish: supernova (sv) c
• Thai: มหานวดารา, ซูเปอร์โนวา
• Turkish: süpernova (tr)
• Ukrainian: наднова́ зі́рка f (nadnová zírka), наднова́ f (nadnová)
• Vietnamese: siêu tân tinh (vi) (超新星)

See also

• nova

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Dutch

Etymology 1

Probably borrowed from English supernova or German Supernova. Equivalent to super- +‎ nova.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsy.pərˈnoː.vaː/
• Hyphenation: su‧per‧no‧va
• Rhymes: -oːvaː

Noun

supernova f (plural supernovae or supernova's)

1. (astronomy) supernova

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Finnish

Etymology

super- +‎ nova

Noun

supernova

1. supernova (exploding star)

Declension

Inflection of supernova (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative		supernova	supernovat
genitive		supernovan	supernovien
partitive		supernovaa	supernovia
illative		supernovaan	supernoviin
		singular	plural
nominative		supernova	supernovat
accusative	nom.	supernova	supernovat
	gen.	supernovan
genitive		supernovan	supernovien supernovainrare
partitive		supernovaa	supernovia
inessive		supernovassa	supernovissa
elative		supernovasta	supernovista
illative		supernovaan	supernoviin
adessive		supernovalla	supernovilla
ablative		supernovalta	supernovilta
allative		supernovalle	supernoville
essive		supernovana	supernovina
translative		supernovaksi	supernoviksi
instructive		—	supernovin
abessive		supernovatta	supernovitta
comitative		—	supernovineen

Possessive forms of supernova (type koira)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	supernovani	supernovamme
2nd person	supernovasi	supernovanne
3rd person	supernovansa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.pɛʁ.nɔ.va/

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Noun

supernova f (plural supernovae)

1. supernova

Further reading

• “supernova” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Galician

Noun

supernova f (plural supernovas)

1. supernova

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Italian

Etymology

super- +‎ nova

Noun

supernova f (plural supernove)

1. supernova

Related terms

• nova

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Portuguese

Noun

supernova f (plural supernovas)

1. supernova

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

supernova f (Cyrillic spelling супернова)

1. supernova

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Spanish

Noun

supernova m (plural supernovas)

1. supernova